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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






2. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






3. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






4. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






5. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






6. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






7. The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component






8. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






9. Document that establishes criteria and activities for developing and controlling the project schedule






10. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






11. Logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends on the completion of work of the predecessor activity






12. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






13. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






14. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






15. Information gathering technique examines the project from the perspective of each projects strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - and threats to increase the breadth of the risks considered by risk management






16. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






17. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






18. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






19. Expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work breakdown structure component or project.






20. Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning - identification - analysis - responses and monitoring and control on a project






21. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






22. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs






23. Project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the position and length of the schedule activity represents its duration. bar chart that includes schedule network logic






24. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






25. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






26. Depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system






27. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.






28. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






29. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.






30. Common way to determine whether a risk is considered low - moderate - or high by combining the two dimensions of a risk: its probability of occurrence and its impact on objectives if it occurs






31. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






32. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






33. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






34. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






35. Processes required to manage the timely completion of a project






36. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






37. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






38. Term used in precedence diagramming method for a logical relationship in current usage. precedence relationship - logical relationship and dependency are interchangeably used






39. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






40. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






41. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






42. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






43. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






44. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






45. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity may begin based upon the schedule network logic - the project completion date and any constraints assigned to schedule activities without violating schedule constraint or delaying project com






46. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






47. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






48. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






49. Processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies - objectives and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken






50. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units